Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-05T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-06T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Ribbon Cutting and Gallery Walk (September 8, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41777 41777-9470884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Join the exhibit creators for a ribbon cutting and a short tour of "Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University."

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:59:04 -0400 2017-09-08T15:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-09T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-09T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 10, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 14, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-14T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-15T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 16, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 17, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Assembling Collectivity: Subjectivity, Community, and Digital Politics (September 18, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41780 41780-9470886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

From Facebook's role in social protest to Silicon Valley's influence on daily culture, the symposium on the digital future will highlight how digital technologies challenge, as well as maintain, the world as we know it. Five eminent scholars from the field of digital studies will share their work and insights with us, as well as invite us into a larger discussion on what the digital future is—and what it should be. This session features:

Lily Chumley, New York University
Sarah Florini, Arizona State University
Sarah Jackson, Northeastern University

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:27:42 -0400 2017-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Digital Futures Graphic
Legal Negations and Negotiations of Citizenship (September 18, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42655 42655-9969043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Libby Garland (Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York)
Kunal Parker (University of Miami School of Law)
Anna Pegler-Gordon (Michigan State University)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Libby Garland is Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough College, The City University of New York, where she teaches immigration history and urban history. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan. Garland is the author of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), winner of both the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener book prize and the American Historical Association’s Dorothy Rosenberg prize in 2015.

Kunal Parker is a professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in history from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Harvard University. He recently completed Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Professor Parker's teaching areas and interests include American legal history, estates and trusts, immigration and nationality law, and property.

Anna Pegler-Gordon became interested in US immigration policy when she was photographed for her immigration papers in 1990. Her first book, In Sight of Ellis Island: Photography and the Development of US Immigration Policy, began as a dissertation in the University of Michigan Department of American Culture. In Sight of America won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Award (2009) and an essay drawn from this research was included in Best American History Essays (2008). Pegler-Gordon is currently completing work on a second book project, tentatively titled From East to East: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Ellis Island. Pegler-Gordon is an associate professor at Michigan State University, teaching in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies program. She recently stepped down as director of MSU’s APA Studies program and has started as director of a graduate fellowship program focused on interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:40:11 -0400 2017-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
Faces of Innovation: Capital and Control in the Digital Future (September 18, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41782 41782-9470887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

From Facebook's role in social protest to Silicon Valley's influence on daily culture, the symposium on the digital future will highlight how digital technologies challenge, as well as maintain, the world as we know it. Five eminent scholars from the field of digital studies will share their work and insights with us, as well as invite us into a larger discussion on what the digital future is—and what it should be. This session features:

Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego
Mitali Thakor, Northwestern University

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:49:54 -0400 2017-09-18T16:30:00-04:00 2017-09-18T18:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Digital Futures Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 23, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 24, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 2, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Symposium Kickoff and Exhibit Opening (October 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42727 42727-9651136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

University and community members join forces to deliver a message about climate change through the arts. Featuring cello major Kayla Mathes, who will perform a piece she has written on climate change; poet Sandra Steingraber; and Sara Adlerstein-Gonzalez, who will formally open an art exhibit she’s curated on climate change.

Sara Adlerstein-Gonzalez, PhD, has been a research faculty member at the School for Environment and Sustainability the University of Michigan for fourteen years. Her research program is centered on Great Lakes applied aquatic ecology, with emphasis on population assessments and ecosystem dynamics. She has authored over 50 peer review publications in scientific journals. Dr. Adlerstein is also a visual artist and she is involved with numerous projects bridging the arts and environmental sciences with particular focus on the role of art in conservation. One of her contributions to art and conservation is the creation of the Art & Environment Gallery in SEAS, where she is director and curator. Dr. Adlerstein is an artist member of the WSG gallery in Ann Arbor and her work is part of public and private collections in countries around the world. Her artwork is featured in Poemas de las Madres (Eastern Washington University Press, 1996).

Kayla Mathes is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan pursuing a double degree in cello performance and environmental science. She was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and came to Michigan specifically for the music program in pursuit of becoming a professional musician. Half way through her college career, she discovered a new passion for ecology and environmental sciences which has since taken her down a very different path. She now hopes to pursue a career as a forest ecology researcher and teacher.

Biologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, PhD, writes about climate change, ecology, and the links between human health and the environment. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from US cancer registries and was adapted for the screen in 2010. As both book and documentary film, Living Downstream has won praise from international media. A contributing essayist and editor for Orion magazine, Sandra Steingraber is currently a distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham Graduate School; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Sustainability Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:41:59 -0400 2017-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Climate Future Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 3, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-03T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
History and Politics of Climate Change (October 3, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42728 42728-9651137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This panel will focus on the university’s historical role in climate change science and the current political and social impacts of climate change. Featuring panelists:

Benjamin Iuliano (Undergraduate Student, Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity, University of Michigan)
Stephen Mulkey (President Emeritus, Unity College)
Theresa Ong (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Science Foundation)
Sandra Steingraber (Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Ithaca College)

Ben Iuliano is a senior at the University of Michigan studying ecology, evolution, and biodiversity, with a minor in food and the environment. In his time at Michigan, Ben has been a student activist affiliated with a variety of groups including Science for the People, the Michigan Student Power Network, and the U-M fossil fuel divestment campaign (Divest and Invest). During the 2015-2016 school year, he served as a student leader for Divest and Invest, overseeing campaign successes including the approval of a Faculty Senate Assembly Resolution and campaign endorsement by the Michigan Daily. Ben has published research on pollinator ecology in urban agroecosystems, and serves as the sustainable food, healthy communities program assistant at the Ecology Center in Ann Arbor.

As a scholar of the interdisciplinary literature in environmental science, Stephen Mulkey is an active public interpreter of climate change and sustainability. His recent research focuses on the role of landscape carbon stocks in climate mitigation and on the academic structure of interdisciplinary programs in the environmental and sustainability sciences.From 2011 to 2015, he served as president of Unity College in Maine, a four-year liberal arts institution dedicated to sustainability science.

Theresa Wei Ying Ong, PhD, is a recent University of Michigan Ecology and Evolutionary Biology alum, where she worked with John Vandermeer. Currently, she is a NSF postdoctoral research fellow. She is broadly interested in theoretical agroecology, especially in the setting of urban gardens. Her work focuses on how biocomplexity influences the resilience of these agricultural systems to both ecological and political perturbations. Her scientific work has been published in Nature Communications, and in news outlets including Science Daily. Theresa has helped to organize many political and scientific events at U of M including the Climate Teach-In +50: End the War Against the Planet, the Early Career Scientists Symposium on Humans as a Force of Ecological and Evolutionary Change and the symposium in honor of John Vandermeer: Science with Passion and a Moral Compass. She is a graduate of the Frontiers Masters Program, an initiative to diversify the field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and a proud member of Science for the People.

Biologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, PhD, writes about climate change, ecology, and the links between human health and the environment. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from US cancer registries and was adapted for the screen in 2010. As both book and documentary film, Living Downstream has won praise from international media. A contributing essayist and editor for Orion magazine, Sandra Steingraber is currently a distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:42:44 -0400 2017-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T21:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Climate Future Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 4, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Stephen Mulkey Lecture: Higher Education During the Great Disruption (October 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42730 42730-9653736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Lecture abstract forthcoming.

As a scholar of the interdisciplinary literature in environmental science, Stephen Mulkey is an active public interpreter of climate change and sustainability. His recent research focuses on the role of landscape carbon stocks in climate mitigation and on the academic structure of interdisciplinary programs in the environmental and sustainability sciences.From 2011 to 2015, he served as president of Unity College in Maine, a four-year liberal arts institution dedicated to sustainability science.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:43:14 -0400 2017-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Stephen Mulkey
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 5, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Bill McKibben, "Down to the Wire: A Hot Fight in a Hot World" (16th Peter M. Wege Foundation Lecture on Sustainability) (October 5, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42731 42731-9653771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Bill McKibben, an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the "alternative Nobel." His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages; he’s gone on to write a dozen more books. He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.

The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”

A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books,National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors . In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia mckibbeni—in his honor.

Bill McKibben is the featured presenter of the School for Environment and Sustainability's 16th Peter M. Wege Foundation Lecture on Sustainability.

This program is presented in partnership with MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Center for Sustainable Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Photo by Steve Liptay.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:40:21 -0400 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Bill McKibben
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 7, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 8, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Climate Change Though Poetry and Music (October 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44576 44576-9931514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Performance Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:22:55 -0400 2017-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Performance Climate Future Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Immigrants and Newcomers: Historic Limits to Diversity at U-M (October 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42647 42647-9622474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Matthew Countryman (University of Michigan)
Karla Goldman (University of Michigan)
Brian Williams (University of Michigan)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Matthew Countryman is associate professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan and author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

Karla Goldman is Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and professor of Judaic Studies. She is the author of Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism (Harvard Univeristy Press).

Brian Williams is lead bicentennial archivist at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:39:22 -0400 2017-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-12T13:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Legal Negations and Negotiations of Citizenship (October 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42655 42655-9622478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Libby Garland (Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York)
Kunal Parker (University of Miami School of Law)
Anna Pegler-Gordon (Michigan State University)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Libby Garland is Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough College, The City University of New York, where she teaches immigration history and urban history. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan. Garland is the author of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), winner of both the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener book prize and the American Historical Association’s Dorothy Rosenberg prize in 2015.

Kunal Parker is a professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in history from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Harvard University. He recently completed Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Professor Parker's teaching areas and interests include American legal history, estates and trusts, immigration and nationality law, and property.

Anna Pegler-Gordon became interested in US immigration policy when she was photographed for her immigration papers in 1990. Her first book, In Sight of Ellis Island: Photography and the Development of US Immigration Policy, began as a dissertation in the University of Michigan Department of American Culture. In Sight of America won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Award (2009) and an essay drawn from this research was included in Best American History Essays (2008). Pegler-Gordon is currently completing work on a second book project, tentatively titled From East to East: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Ellis Island. Pegler-Gordon is an associate professor at Michigan State University, teaching in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies program. She recently stepped down as director of MSU’s APA Studies program and has started as director of a graduate fellowship program focused on interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:40:11 -0400 2017-10-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Migrancy and Border Control (October 13, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42662 42662-9622485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Kelly Lytle Hernandez (University of California, Los Angeles)
Eithne Luibhéid (University of Arizona)
Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh)

Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor in the University of California, Los Angeles Departments of History and African American Studies as well as the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is one of the nation’s leading historians of race, policing, immigration, and incarceration in the United States. Her award-winning book, MIGRA! A History of the US Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), explored the making and meaning of the US Border Patrol in the US-Mexico borderlands, arguing that the century-long surge of US immigration law enforcement in the US-Mexico borderlands is a story of race in America. Her most recently published book, City of Inmates: Conquest and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), is an unsettling tale that spans two centuries to unearth the long rise of incarceration as a social institution bent toward disappearing targeted populations from land, life, and society in the United States. She is also the project lead for Million Dollar Hoods, a digital mapping project that documents how much is spent on incarceration in Los Angeles.

Eithne Luibhéid is a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She served as the director of the Institute for LGBT Studies from 2007-2011. Her research focuses on the connections among queer lives, state immigration controls, and justice struggles. Luibhéid is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Luibhéid’s current book manuscript, “Why Don’t They Just Get in Line? Immigration, Deportability, and Queer Intimacies,” explores how deportability is being extended and resisted through intimate ties between LGBT undocumented migrants and US citizens.

Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She writes on Latin American and Caribbean history, theories and methods of transnational history, and issues of migration, kinship, and gender. Publications include The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (UNC Press, 2002), Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (UNC Press, 2013), and more than two dozen chapters and articles. Recent honors include the Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize of Association of Caribbean Historians, for “Citizenship from the Margins: Vernacular Theories of Rights and the State from the Interwar Caribbean,” Journal of British Studies (2014) and the 32nd Annual Elsa Goveia Memorial Lectureship at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica (2016). Putnam is President of the Conference on Latin American History and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review.

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:44:25 -0400 2017-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Crisis Democracy Graphic
Mae Ngai, A Long History of Unauthorized Immigration Keynote: Who Makes America a Nation of Immigrants? (October 13, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42666 42666-9622501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Mae M. Ngai is a professor of history and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is a US legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. Mae is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, 2004), which won six awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians; and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). Professor Ngai has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009-10); the Institute for Advanced Study (2009-10); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-04); the Huntington Library (2006); NYU Law School (1999-2000). Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Nation, and the Boston Review.

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:44:20 -0400 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Mae Ngai
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 14, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-14T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 15, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 21, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Failing Flint: Lessons from the Water Crisis (October 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42718 42718-9651118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This discussion takes place at the Flint Public Library (1026 E. Kearsley St., Flint, MI 48503) and features panelists:

Michael Hood, Executive Director, Crossing Water (Flint)
Robert McCathern, Pastor, Joy Tabernacle Church (Flint)
Mona Munroe-Yunis, Program Manager, Public Health Practice, School of Public Health, Universtiy of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Gregory Timmons, Flint Water Recovery Resource Coordinator, Michigan Area United Methodist Church (Flint)
Jacob Lederman (moderator), Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan (Flint)

ANN ARBOR-FLINT TRANSIT
Free, roundtrip bus transportation to Flint is available departing from the Michigan Union at 10:30 am and departing from the Flint Public Library at 2:30 pm. Space is limited. Please message flintcharter@umich.edu to reserve a seat.

AFTER-EVENT WATER DISTRIBUTION
Those wishing to help Crossing Water and the United Methodist Church distribute safe drinking water in the Flint community after the panel, from 2 to 5 pm, should register at bit.ly/flintdistro. Carpooling available for those returning to Ann Arbor.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:57:36 -0400 2017-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Michigan Horizons graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 22, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
U-M 2117: What Future for the Public University? (October 23, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42668 42668-9622503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Lecture by Christopher Newfield (University of California, Santa Barbara) with response from Terrence J. McDonald (University of Michigan). Chaired by Dario Gaggio (University of Michigan).

Christopher Newfield is professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Much of his research is in critical university studies, which links his enduring concern with humanities teaching to the study of how higher education continues to be re-shaped by industry and other economic forces. His most recent books on this subject are Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard University Press, 2008), and Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 (Duke University Press, 2003). A new book on the post-2008 struggles of public universities to rebuild their social missions, called The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2016. He also writes about American intellectual and social history (The Emerson Effect, University of Chicago Press), and has co-edited Mapping Multiculturalism (University of Minnesota Press) with Avery F. Gordon. He blogs on higher education policy at Remaking the University, and writes for the Huffington Post, Inside Higher Ed, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He teaches courses in
Detective Fiction, Noir California, Contemporary U.S. Literature, Innovation Theory, and English Majoring After College.

Terrence J. McDonald became the director of the Bentley Historical Library in 2013 after serving as dean of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for ten years. He is also currently an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of history. He joined the university faculty after receiving his PhD in American history from Stanford University. The mission of the Bentley Historical Library is to collect the materials for and promote the study of the histories of the University of Michigan and the State of Michigan. To encourage undergraduate students to use the university archives at the Bentley, he has been teaching a course on the history of the university annually for the past three years.

Dario Gaggio is professor history and associate chair in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. His research and teaching focuses on modern Europe, history and political economy, modern Italy, and environmental and agrarian history. He is the author of The Shaping of Tuscany: Landscape and Society between Tradition and Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (Princeton University Press, 2007).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:01:09 -0400 2017-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Christopher Newfield
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Lecture: "Maize, Blue, and Lavender: Revisiting U-M's LGBTQ Past" (October 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44776 44776-9977682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Tim Retzloff received his BA with highest honors in history from the University of Michigan in 2006 and earned his PhD in history from Yale in 2014. Prior to graduate school, he worked for seventeen years in various U-M libraries, first on the Flint campus, then in Ann Arbor. His engagement with U-M’s LGBTQ past began while a student at UM-Flint, when he authored the history appendix for the 1991 study From Invisibility to Inclusion, Opening the Doors for Lesbians and Gay Men at the University of Michigan, commonly known as The Lavender Report.

Retzloff has been a guest on Stateside with Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio and The Craig Fahle Show on WDET. His writings on Michigan’s queer past have appeared in the anthology Creating a Place for Ourselves, the journal GLQ, the collection Making Suburbia, and the pages of Between The Lines. He is currently at work on his first book, Metro Gay, about gay and lesbian life and politics in Metro Detroit from 1945 to 1985. He teaches history and LGBTQ studies at Michigan State University and curates the website Michigan LGBTQ Remember (michiganlgbtqremember.com).

This event is presented by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional support from the LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; History; the Spectrum Center; and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:26:24 -0400 2017-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Tim Retzloff
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Lecture: "The Lavender Scare: Federal Anti-Gay Purges during the Cold War" (October 26, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42669 42669-9622504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

David K. Johnson (Ph.D. Northwestern) is an Associate Professor in the history department at the University of South Florida. His first book, "The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government," (University of Chicago, 2004) won three awards, including the Herbert Hoover Book Award and the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. A documentary film version of "The Lavender Scare" by Emmy-award winning director Josh Howard is currently on the film festival circuit. Johnson co-edited "The U.S. Since 1945: A Documentary Reader" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), an anthology of primary source documents for students studying modern American politics and culture. He was a contributing author to the National Park Service’s "LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History." Johnson has held fellowships at the National Humanities Center, the Smithsonian Institution, the Social Science Research Council, CUNY’s Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies, and the Leather Archives and Museum. He is currently completing the book “Buying Gay: Physique Magazines, Censorship, and the Rise of the Gay Movement,” which chronicles the rise of a gay commercial network in the 1950s and 1960s.

This event is presented by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional support from the LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; History; the Spectrum Center; and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:56:51 -0400 2017-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion David Johnson
President’s Bicentennial Colloquium III: “The Campus of the Future” (October 26, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41566 41566-9364972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

A yearlong competition, "The Campus of the Future," asks students to collaborate on projects that reimagine methods and spaces for teaching and learning at a residential research university. The design competition is the final of three colloquia sponsored by the Office of the President during the bicentennial year.

Projects will be on display at the Duderstadt Center from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Final judging and the award ceremony will take place at the Power Center from 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:22:17 -0400 2017-10-26T16:30:00-04:00 2017-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Bicentennial Office Conference / Symposium Campus of the Future
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Horizons of the Movement: Discussing the Future of Racial Justice Organizing at Michigan with Black Activists from BAM I to the Present (November 1, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42719 42719-9651119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Horizons of the Movement will bring together multiple generations of Black activists who attended the University of Michigan and fought for racial justice from 1970 to present, including BAM I, BAM II, BAM III, #BBUM, Students 4 Justice, and Black Student Union. Drawing upon their organizing histories, panelists will consider what has been achieved for racial justice at U-M and how far the university still needs to go. Panelists will also collectively strategize and brainstorm with the audience about what a future racial justice agenda could look like.

Panelists include:

Melba Boyd (BAM at Western Michigan University)
Tyrell Collier (#BBUM)
Robert Greenfield (#BBUM)
Errol Henderson (BAM III)
Capri'Nara Kendall (#BBUM)
Jesse Love (Black Student Union)
LaKyrra Magee (Students 4 Justice)
Stephanie Rowley (BAM III)
Cynthia Stephens (BAM I)
Lawrielle West (Students 4 Justice)
Maryam Aziz (moderator), Graduate Student, American Culture, University of Michigan

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History an the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:13:24 -0400 2017-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
The Future of the Military and Civilians in War (November 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42634 42634-9619862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:

Helen Benedict (Columbia University): title forthcoming
Robert Donia (University of Michigan): “Warriors and Humanitarian Workers: Fraught and Changing Relations from Vietnam to Bosnia and Kosovo”
Ian Fishback (University of Michigan): “Civil-Military Relations in Iraq and Afghanistan Deployments”
David Scott, MD (Captain, Medical Corps, USN (RET)): “Evolution of Military-Humanitarian Healthcare Missions”
Jonathan Marwil (chair, University of Michigan)

This symposium explores possible future directions in the realms of war and peace, focusing on the inextricably entangled nature of these two spheres. Technologies of war and violence, such as drones and nuclear weapons/energy, for instance, also possess many peacetime functions. Humanitarianism similarly blurs the lines between war and peace, given that humanitarian initiatives may not only respond to situations of war but may aim to forestall it–sometimes through preemptive military actions. With the rise of unconventional and robotic warfare, too, the "front" becomes a hybrid of fighting and governance, raising pointed questions as to the future boundaries between civilian and soldier. The three panels comprising this symposium explore these and many other timely issues.

Helen Benedict is a professor of journalism at Columbia University. She is a novelist and journalist specializing in social injustice and the effects of war on soldiers and civilians. Her most recent writings have focused on women soldiers, military sexual assault, and Iraqi refugees, and she is credited with breaking the story about the epidemic of sexual assault of military women serving in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Her work on these subjects include her new novel, "Wolf Season," (Bellevue, 2017), her previous novel “Sand Queen” (Soho Press, 2011) and her non-fiction book, "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq," (Beacon Press, 2009), which won her the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism in 2013.

Robert Donia is an American historian who studies the human rights movement and the history of Southeast Europe. He served in the US Army from 1969 to 1972 with deployments to Germany, Korea, and Vietnam. He received his PhD in history from the University of Michigan in 1976 and has since authored or edited seven books in his fields of study, most recently a work about the war and war crimes in Bosnia (1992-1995), Radovan Karadžić: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He has been called as an expert witness to testify in fifteen war crimes trials at the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife Jane and more cats than allowed by city code.

Ian Fishback is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His research interests are political and moral philosophy, moral psychology, conflict studies, the law of armed conflict, and criminal law. He is writing a dissertation on the relationship between the morality and law with respect to two principles: proportionality and necessity. Ian has a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to transitioning to academia, he served as an officer in the paratroopers and Special Forces from 2001-2010, including four combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. He also served as a philosophy instructor at West Point from 2012-2015. TIME magazine named Ian one of the 100 most influential people in the world for his role in reforming detainee treatment standards in the US military from 2005 to 2006.

David Scott received his BS from the University of Michigan in 1970 and his MD from the University of Minnesota in 1974. He practiced Internal medicine in Minneapolis until 2008. In 1987 Dr. Scott joined the Navy Reserve where he served with the Marine Corps 4th Medical Battalion until his retirement in 2008. He was officer in charge of the Minneapolis detachment and became an authority on cold weather operations and participated in numerous winter exercises in Alaska, Iceland, and Norway. In 2003, he was mobilized for the start of the Iraq War and served at several facilities in Kuwait and Iraq.
Dr. Scott returned to Ann Arbor in 2008 and in 2013 received a BA degree in History from the University of Michigan. He is employed by the Ann Arbor VA Health System and is the author of the novel Short Season.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:06:32 -0400 2017-11-08T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium The Future of War and Peace Graphic
Technologies and Instruments of War (November 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42636 42636-9619863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:

Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan): Opening Remarks
Hugh Gusterson (George Washington University): “Robotic War”
Anna Weichselbraun (Stanford University): “Temporal Grammars of Nuclear Expertise: Forestalling the Future of Disarmament”

This symposium explores possible future directions in the realms of war and peace, focusing on the inextricably entangled nature of these two spheres. Technologies of war and violence, such as drones and nuclear weapons/energy, for instance, also possess many peacetime functions. Humanitarianism similarly blurs the lines between war and peace, given that humanitarian initiatives may not only respond to situations of war but may aim to forestall it–sometimes through preemptive military actions. With the rise of unconventional and robotic warfare, too, the "front" becomes a hybrid of fighting and governance, raising pointed questions as to the future boundaries between civilian and soldier. The three panels comprising this symposium explore these and many other timely issues.

Pamela Ballinger is Fred Cuny Professor of the History of Human Rights and associate professor of history at the University of Michigan. She is the author of History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans (Princeton University Press, 2003). She has published on topics such as refugees, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and human rights in journals that include Comparative Studies in Society and History, Contemporary European History, Current Anthropology, History and Memory, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, New Global Studies, and Past and Present.

Hugh Gusterson is professor of anthropology and international affairs at George Washington University. Gusterson is the author of Nuclear Rites (University of California Press, 1996), People of the Bomb (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), and Drone (MIT Press, 2016). He is co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), The Insecure American (University of California Press, 2009), and Why America’s Top Pundits Are Wrong (University of California Press, 2005). He has a regular column for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and for the new public anthropology website, Sapiens. He has also published in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Science, Nature, New Scientist, American Scientist, and The Sciences. From 2009-2012 Gusterson served on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, in which capacity he co-chaired the final phase of approval of the Association’s new ethics code. He is president of the American Ethnological Society, and was a member of the American Anthropological Association’s Task Force on Engagement with Israel/Palestine.

Anna Weichselbraun is a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at CISAC. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in August 2016. Her book manuscript, based on twenty-four months of ethnographic fieldwork and multi-archival research, investigates how nuclear safeguards inspectors, bureaucrats, and diplomats at the IAEA negotiate the international and institutional boundaries of politics and technology in their working lives. She asks how organizational products such as bureaucratic procedures, technical inspection reports, policy papers, and official diplomatic statements contribute to the logical ordering of technocratic expertise within the IAEA. She is especially interested in how individuals at international organizations communicate across different epistemic paradigms, and how particular types of speaking become recognized as authoritative and legitimate. To that end she has begun research on recent nuclear disarmament efforts—which include the newly agreed international treaty to ban nuclear weapons—interrogating how shifts in discursive paradigms and logics have succeeded in breaking the decades-long gridlock on hegemonic nuclear norms.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:02:39 -0400 2017-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T12:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium The Future of War and Peace Graphic
Technologies and Instruments of Peace (November 9, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42637 42637-9619864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:
Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan): "Humanitarian Futures"
Susan Waltz (University of Michigan): "Finding Political Will to Implement the 2013 Arms Trade
Treaty"
Chaired by Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)

This symposium explores possible future directions in the realms of war and peace, focusing on the inextricably entangled nature of these two spheres. Technologies of war and violence, such as drones and nuclear weapons/energy, for instance, also possess many peacetime functions. Humanitarianism similarly blurs the lines between war and peace, given that humanitarian initiatives may not only respond to situations of war but may aim to forestall it–sometimes through preemptive military actions. With the rise of unconventional and robotic warfare, too, the "front" becomes a hybrid of fighting and governance, raising pointed questions as to the future boundaries between civilian and soldier. The three panels comprising this symposium explore these and many other timely issues.

Pamela Ballinger is Fred Cuny Professor of the History of Human Rights and associate professor of history at the University of Michigan. She is the author of History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans (Princeton University Press, 2003). She has published on topics such as refugees, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and human rights in journals that include Comparative Studies in Society and History, Contemporary European History, Current Anthropology, History and Memory, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, New Global Studies, and Past and Present.

Fatma Müge Göçek is a professor of sociology and women's studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of history, politics and gender in the first and third worlds. She critically analyzes the impact of processes such as development, nationalism, religious movements and collective violence on minorities.

Susan Waltz is professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Both a scholar and a practitioner in the field of international human rights, she began her career as an area specialist, focusing on the North African countries of Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. Over the past twenty years she has conducted research on North African regional politics and the local human rights movement. More recently, her research has focused on the historical origins of international human rights instruments and the political processes that produced them. She is co-author of the website Human Rights Advocacy and the History of International Human Rights Standards (http://humanrightshistory.umich.edu).

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:02:55 -0400 2017-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 2017-11-09T15:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium The Future of War and Peace Graphic
Urban Futures: Michigan Cities Bicentennial Symposium (November 14, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42638 42638-9619865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Speakers:
Suzanne Schulz, Director of Planning, City of Grand Rapids
Arthur Jemison, Director of Housing and Revitalization, City of Detroit

Panelists:
Margi Dewar, Professor Emerita, Taubman College of Urban Planning
Lou Glazer, President, Michigan Future, Inc.
Danielle Lewinski, Vice Presdient and Director of Michigan Initiatives, Center for Community Progress

Urban Futures: Michigan Cities brings together urban leaders from across the state for a conversation about how Michigan cities are challenging a public image of dereliction and decline and positioning themselves for the next century. Over the course of the afternoon symposium, Suzanne Schulz (director of planning for the City of Grand Rapids) and Arthur Jemison (director of housing and revitalization for the City of Detroit) will share their perspectives on two distinct Michigan cities, discuss what we can learn from their varied histories, and offer visions for the future. The two keynote speakers will focus their remarks on the distinctive challenges and opportunities Michigan cities present and how their cities are charting equitable, diverse, sustainable, and prosperous paths forward. Following these keynote addresses, a panel of experts will offer their thoughts on the two cities and lead a discussion with the speakers and the audience.

Speaker Biographies:

James (Arthur) Jemison is the director of housing and revitalization for the City of Detroit, Michigan. Most recently he was the deputy undersecretary of housing for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and deputy director of the Department of Housing and Community Development. Jemison has a BA in social thought and political economy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and a master of city planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Suzanne Schultz is director of planning for the City of Grand Rapids. She has a BS in urban and regional planning from Michigan State University. Schultz currently serves as vice president for Michigan Association of Planning Board of Directors.


The event is organized by the Detroit School Series, a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop funded by the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan, and presented in conjunction with the LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester. Additional support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; University of Michigan Bicentennial Office, Department of History; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:09:41 -0500 2017-11-14T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Urban Futures Graphic
Futures of Law and Political Inclusion (December 6, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42639 42639-9619866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the future of political participation, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation, debates over free speech and safe spaces, and the shifting configurations of social movements.

The Futures of Law and Political Inclusion panel features:

Jowei Chen, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Michigan
Ellen D. Katz, Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Reuben Miller, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

Jowei Chen is an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan. His research interests include distributive politics, executive agencies and legislatures. He has studied how legislators' pork-barreling strategies are shaped by the electoral geography of their districts, and he has examined how government spending influences voters. He is also interested in the political control of executive agencies.

Ellen D. Katz, the Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, writes and teaches about election law, civil rights and remedies, and equal protection. Her scholarship addresses questions of minority representation, political equality, and the role of institutions in crafting and implementing anti-discrimination laws. Professor Katz has published numerous articles, including an influential empirical study of litigation under the Voting Rights Act. Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty, Professor Katz practiced as an attorney with the appellate sections of the US Department of Justice's Civil Division and its Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Reuben Jonathan Miller is an assistant pProfessor at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) and a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. His research examines life at the intersections of race, crime control, and social welfare policy. Miller has conducted fieldwork in Chicago, Detroit, and New York City, examining how law, policy and emergent practices of state and third-party supervision changed the contours of citizenship, activism, community, and family life for poor black Americans and the urban poor more broadly.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:02:12 -0500 2017-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Crisis Democracy Graphic
Futures of Free Speech, Safe Space, and Political Expression (December 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42640 42640-9619867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the future of political participation, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation, debates over free speech and safe spaces, and the shifting configurations of social movements.

The Futures of Free Speech, Safe Space, and Political Expression panel features:
Matthew Countryman, Associate Professor, American Culture and History, University of Michigan
Christina Hanhardt, Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Maryland
LaKisha Simmons, Assistant Professor, History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan

Matthew Countryman is an associate professor of American culture and history at the University of Michigan. He also serves as faculty advisor for the Rackham Graduate School's Program in Public Scholarship. His publications include Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

Christina B. Hanhardt is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the historical and contemporary study of US social movements and cities since the mid-20th century, with an emphasis on the politics of stigma, punishment, and uneven development. Her first book, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Duke University Press, 2013), won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBT Studies, and honorable mention for both the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies, and the Lora Romero Prize for Best First Book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation.

LaKisha Simmons is an assistant professor of history and women's studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans (UNC Press, 2015), which won the SAWH Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for best book in southern women's history and received Honorable Mention for the ABWH Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award for the best book in African American women's history.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:00:24 -0500 2017-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Crisis Democracy Graphic
Futures of Democratic Social Movements (December 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42641 42641-9619868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the future of political participation, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation, debates over free speech and safe spaces, and the shifting configurations of social movements.

The Futures of Democratic Social Movements panel features:

Cedric de Leon, Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University
Jessica Garrick, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of Michigan
Maria Cotera, Associate Professor, American Culture and Women's Studies, University of Michigan

Maria Cotera is currently an associate professor in the Departments of Women’s Studies and American Culture at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD from Stanford University’s Program in Modern Thought, and an MA in English from the University of Texas. Professor Cotera currently serves as director of the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies Program. She is the author of Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez and the Poetics of Culture (University of Texas Press, 2008).

Jessica Garrick is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan, where she transferred after starting her graduate career at the University of New Mexico. While in New Mexico, she worked closely with an immigrant worker center to document the incidence of wage theft among Mexican immigrants in the area. For her dissertation, Jessica is using the case of US labor law to explore how laws long “on the books” are repurposed to fit new contexts.

Cedric de Leon is an associate professor of sociology at Tufts University. Before arriving at Tufts, he served as chair of the sociology department at Providence College. He is the author of The Origins of Right to Work (Cornell University Press, 2015) and Party and Society (Polity Press, 2014) and is co-editor of Building Blocs (Stanford University Press, 2015) with Manali Desai and Cihan Tugal. He has served in numerous elected and appointed posts in the American Sociological Association and Social Science History Association and sits on the editorial boards of Contemporary Sociology and Social Problems.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:59:09 -0500 2017-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Crisis Democracy Graphic
Democratic Futures at Michigan: A Discussion with Local Organizers (December 7, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42642 42642-9619869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the future of political participation, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation, debates over free speech and safe spaces, and the shifting configurations of social movements.

The Democratic Futures at Michigan: A Discussion with Local Organizers panel features:

Hoai An Pham, Students4Justice
Maria Ibarra-Frayre, Washtenaw ID Project
Joel Batterman, Motor City Freedom Riders
Amina Kirk, Detroit People’s Platform

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 05 Dec 2017 06:28:29 -0500 2017-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Crisis Democracy Graphic
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Lecture: Fugitive Democracy Revisited (December 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42643 42643-9619870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the future of political participation, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation, debates over free speech and safe spaces, and the shifting configurations of social movements.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. will deliver the keynote lecture of the Crisis Democracy symposium. His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, take a wide look at black communities and reveal complexities, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for hope. In addition to his readings of early American philosophers and contemporary political scientists, Glaude turns to African American literature in his writing and teaching for insight into African American political life, religious thought, gender and class.

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. is currently the chair of the Department of African American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. Widely regarded as one of the most important black intellectuals in the United States today, Glaude offers a critical and insightful view on the problems currently facing black America as well as the nation at large. He is the author of Exodus: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America (Chicago, 2000), winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America (Chicago, 2007), and African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2014). He is the editor of Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (Chicago, 2002) and co-editor with Cornel West of African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Westminster John Knox, 2003). His award-winning book, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, has been characterized as a tour de force. Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (Crown Publishing, 2016) is his latest book, a provocative account of the current state of race in the United States.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Graduate Student Events and Conferences Fund; History; Institute for the Humanities; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; Rackham Graduate School Dean's Initiative; Philosophy; and Sociology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Dec 2017 06:27:40 -0500 2017-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Eddie S Glaude Jr